Florida State University

Elizabeth Avery serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies. Avery joined the FSU College of Music faculty in 2023, after twelve years on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma, where she served as Associate Director/Coordinator of Graduate Studies and held the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship. She has also taught at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, Austin Peay State University, Castleton State University, and the Crane School of Music. She earned the DMA in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music, MM in Collaborative Piano from the University of Michigan, and BME from the Crane School of Music. She also completed the Special Studies program at the Prague Conservatory, performing Czech solo and chamber music while honing her expertise in Czech lyric diction.

Sarah Eyerly, Professor of Musicology, Director of the Early Music Program, and Coordinator of Musicology, holds the MA/PhD in musicology and criticism from the University of California, Davis, and the MM in historical performance practices from the Mannes College of Music. As a Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands, she studied historical performance practices at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague. Prior to joining the faculty at FSU, she taught at UCLA, the University of Southern California, and Butler University, and was appointed as a visiting scholar with UCLA’s Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Her research interests are broad, and include sound studies, performance practice and applied musicology, music and religion, and the geo-humanities. Her book and sound mapping project, Moravian Soundscapes (Series: Music, Nature, Place; Indiana University Press, 2020), is a sonic history of Moravian mission communities during the period of the Seven Year’s War and the American Revolution. She is also currently involved in an interdisciplinary research project on the history and transmission of Moravian hymns in the Mohican language. Other research projects include adaptations of Mozart’s music by Inuit musicians in coastal Labrador, a biography and documentary film on the life of the eighteenth-century Mohican musician, Joshua, heritage tourism and indigenous representation at the Gnadenhütten massacre site in Ohio, and sound reconstruction of the Apalachee and Spanish musical culture of Mission San Luis in Tallahassee, FL.

She has received grants, fellowships, and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Council for Research and Creativity (FSU). She is a Faculty Fellow in Data Humanities at FSU, and President of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Mozart Society of America, and is Treasurer for Phi Beta Kappa-Alpha of Florida.

James Frazier, EdD, MFA is dean of the Florida State University College of Fine Arts and currently serves as secretary/president-elect of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans and as a board member of the American Dance Festival (ADF). Frazier formerly held the positions of interim dean of the School of the Arts, associate dean for graduate studies and faculty affairs of the School, and chair of the Department of Dance and Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a former secretary and past president of the Council of Dance Administrators, and previously held the positions of co-dean of the ADF and associate artistic director of the Dance Institute of Washington.